Anne Sexton: Quotes about God

Anne Sexton was poet from the United States. Explore interesting quotes on god.

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“God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.”

“I am God, la de dah.”

Source: The Complete Poems

“God owns heaven but He craves the earth.”

“Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen,
who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat,
who never lived and yet outlived her time,
hating men and dogs and Democrats.”

“Look to your heart
that flutters in and out like a moth.
God is not indifferent to your need.
You have a thousand prayers
but God has one.”

“God went out of me
as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun
became a latrine.
God went out of my fingers.
They became stone.
My body became a side of mutton
and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.”

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“Love your self's self where it lives.
There is no special God to refer to; or if there is,
why did I let you grow
in another place. You did not know my voice
when I came back to call. All the superlatives
of tomorrow's white tree and mistletoe
will not help you know the holidays you had to miss.”

"The Double Image"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

“I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.
Very quick. Very intense,
like a wolf at a live heart.”

"Frenzy"
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)

“God is only mocked by believers.”

"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

“We are all writing God's poem.”

As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2